Windshield wiper



- tional view of the wiper,

Patented Aug. 23, 1932 UNITED [sTArEs PATENT. OFFICE CLARENCE A. GOOLEY AND EDWARD L. GOOLEY, JR., OF HARRINGTON, WASH INGTOI\T WINDSHIELD wir m Application filed April 14,

use of an electric motor or by the employment of the usual fluid pressure motor for this purpose.

In connection with the wiper We provide means whereby the heat from the heating element enclosed within the device, is retained for use, and distributed effectively and without unnecessary waste over the surface to be wiped. In carrying out our invention we utilize a rubber sheet, U-shaped in cross section, which sheet is retained within a holder, with its spaced working edges projecting from the holder, and forming between them a heat chamber. The heat in-t-he chamber between the two wiping edges is thus carried back and forth across the face of the wiped windshield. for the purpose. of melting congealed moisture, and for drying the surface while it is being cleansed.

Our invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts involving the construction of the holder, its outer casing, the heater, and the rubber wiper, as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawing we have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of our invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode we have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of our invention.

Figure 1 is a side view, partly broken away, of a windshield wiper embodying our 'invention.

Figure 2 is an edge view 5 ing face of the device,

Figure 3 is an enlarged, transverse secshowing the parts thereof in open or spread position before they are clamped together; I

Figure 4 is a sectional View of the device with the parts in working position.

F igure5 is a view at one end of the device showing the ground for one of the electric howing the work- 1930. Serial No. 444,126.

wires, the outer casing of the device being device, and the wiper sheet is retained in a metal holder 4 with a sheet of asbestos 5 between the holder and the,wiper or rubber sheet.

'Within the holder is retained the electric heating element that includes an outer metallic tube 6 and an inner metallic tube 7 between which is a filler 8 of asbestos, and within the inner metallic tube is the tubular wire holder 9, of mica, that encloses the'electric resistance wires 10, 10.

The heating element, as seen in Figures 3 and 4, is preferably elliptical in cross section, and a filler 11, of asbestos, is clamped between the rubber wiper-sheet and the heating, element. The sheets of asbestos are employed for the purpose of preventing radiation of heat from the heating element as well as for fillers or linings in the metal construction, and the mica tube is an insulator agamst short circuiting of the electric current that is passed through the core of the heating element for the generation of heat within the element.

As seen in Figures 3 and 4 the holder at its I edges projects beyond the exposed face of the heater, while the workin edges 2 and 3 of the wiper projectbeyond the edges of the holder to form a heating space or chamber therebetween, and the heat from the heating element is distributed through this space or chamber, directly to the face of the wind-- shield. .Thus the heat is conserved and is directed or distributed against the surface to be warmed or heated without waste, and for cooperation with the two wiping edges of the wiper in cleansing the windshield.

A lead wire is designated at 12 in Figure 1, and in F igure5 a ground wire 13 at the end. of the holder is brought'out and attached at 14 to a loop that is struck up from the metal of the holder, the electric circuit being completed in usual manner and the electrical energy being supplied through the wire 12 whatwe claim as newand desire to secure by from a suitable source for the heating ele- Letters Patent is:- Y ment. v The combination in a windshield wiper of In Figure 1 the resistance wire 10, is an electric heating element and a U-shaped shown as extending from its connection with holder, of a rubber sheet retained between 70 the feed wire 12, toward the left end of the the heating element and the holder with its device, and then the wire 10 is formed as a free edges projecting beyond the holder to return loop and extends to the opposite or form wipers, a metallic casing over the right end of the device where the wire is holder and spaced therefrom to form a heat grounded as at 14 (Figure'5) to the holder 4. insulating jacket, said casing having trans- The heating or resistance wire is thus fashversely extending indented ribs near its ends ioned with the loop to insure the greatest caengaging the holder and closed ends over the pacity for heating at that part of the wiper holder, pairs of inset end flanges frictionally requiring the greater heat, i. e., the outer end engaging the holder, an operating arm, an of the wiper, which swings through a greater connecting means between the arm and the 80 area of space than the inner end of the wiper. wiper.

The heating elementand its holder are en- In testimony whereof we afiix our signaclosed within an outer metallic casing or tures. guard 15, which, as seen in Figure 1 has its CLARENCE A. GOOLEY. v go opposite walls inset at 16 to form clamp faces EDWARD L. GOOLEY, J R- that frictionally engage the exterior faces of the U-shaped holder. Between. the inset faces and the ends of the casing, the latter is formed as an insulating jacket for retaining 5 heat within the holder, the casing being 9o spaced from the holder as indicated in Figures 3 and 4 to form the, jacket or insulating space.

The casing or jacket also is U-shaped in :0 cross section, and its ends 17,17 close the ends 95 of the holder and heating element, a suitable opening being provided for the wire 13, and for the lead wire 12.

In addition to the frictional contact at the 8:; center of the devicebetween the inset faces 10o 16 and the holder, these members are in frictional contact at or near their ends, through use of theinwardly bent flanges 18 arranged in pairs at the opposite ends of the'casing.

. 40 These flanges close or seal the ends of the casing against loss of heat, as well as perform the function of fastening the casing on the holder at the ends of the latter.

In the rounded or back portion of the casing, and adjacent its ends are countersunk 110 ribs 19 for the further sealing'the ends of the insulating jacket, these ribs being in contact with the face of the rounded portion or back of the holder. r The arm 20 is a lever arm that suitably 15 suspendedto swing the wiper device across the face of a portion of the windshield, and this arm has a forked head 21 that is perforated for the attaching and pivot screw or bolt 22. The bolt passes through the holder and is 12 fastened by means of a nut 23, and the wiper device and arm are so related that the wiper is held in operative position against the face of the windshield for the proper performance of its functions. The attaching device for the arm thus forms the clamp device for the central part of the holder and casing, and the several parts of the device are clamped together securely to preventdisplacement. 66 Having thus fully described our invention, g 

